When May hits, a scramble to prepare for swimsuit season sweeps the gym. But why wait until spring? Now, in the dead of winter, is the perfect time to start building your glutes! When you give yourself four to five months versus four to five weeks the results will be evident. Time is ticking, though. Make your next workout the official start of your "offseason" plan with these butt-building methods.

Why is food fraud acknowledged but not addressed?If someone added something to gasoline that made cars run poorly, people would be up in arms and legislators would take action. If a journalist copies even part of a sentence without attribution, their credibility is destroyed and future employment is in question. But companies can falsify ingredients in food that put people at risk, and no one seems to care.

Are your boiler and/or radiators creaking and squeaking? Or do you find that your boiler is not heating your home evenly, the way it used to? Maybe it seems to be working harder than ever, but ... brrr ... producing less and less heat. Any of these could well be a sign that the time has come to replace your boiler.

Happy new year! The holiday is over, welcome to reality – time to face school and work. For children and parents, too, an adjustment to the reality of daily life can be challenging after this long holiday period that seems to start earlier every year. The tree ornaments are packed up for another year, the menorah is put away, the stores, homes and streets lose their festive decorations. With all the parties and presents, children had been transported into what may have felt like a fantasy...

TIP OF THE WEEKWith so many dishes requiring time-consuming special preparation, you may find yourself looking for ways to shave a little time. The key is to buy back precious minutes without sacrificing the taste and quality your loved ones expect when they gather for a weeknight meal.To ensure you're always ready to create delicious dinners, keep these tips in mind:

Welcome to a new feature here at the Barn Door, Old Bikes I Wish I Still Had. See I have always had this deal where I like to buy stuff then sell it and buy other stuff. Almost always I eventually wish I had the thing I sold back. Usually when its been long enough that I forgot why I sold it.

“Nora Webster,” by Colm Toíbín. Scribner, New York, 2014. 384 pages. $27.Colm Toíbín’s newest novel, “Nora Webster,” is set in the late 1960s and early ’70s in County Wexford in southeast Ireland.The political and religious conflicts play out noisily to the north while 44-year-old Nora Webster, mother of four and just widowed, slowly, deliberately feels her way forward.

A little lesson about 2015.Did you know that it’s now illegal in New York to take a selfie with a tiger? Not only can’t you take a picture, the new law won’t allow you to get really close to a tiger, lion or other big cats.I know, the tyranny of big government imposing their own fears and cynical objections about safety and animal cruelty on the struggling working man.

Remember when we were kids and we came back from school vacation just dying to tell everyone the amazing things we did during our break? We had that tingly feeling that our vacation was the greatest vacation of all time and we just had to share what we did with everyone? Well, I just had the best holiday break ever, and I’m dying to share.

TIP OF THE WEEKAre you looking for ways to update your home this new year? With so many fresh interior ideas available, it can be difficult to balance current design trends with classic styles for a look that is both of-the-moment and everlasting. Follow these guidelines to find a way to blend now and forever for a look you will love today and tomorrow.

For more than 25 years, the American Experience documentary series on PBS has produced hundreds of hours of television examining small and large historical moments that have helped to define who we are as a nation. This winter, the series premieres five new films including “Klansville U.S.A.”, the story of the most successful civil rights era Grand Dragon in the Ku Klux Klan’s history. In three years, Bob Jones grew the North Carolina Klan from a small collection of friends to 10,000 members...